Describe renewable resources and list examples.
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A renewable resource is a resource that can be replenished in a matter of years, but some are inexhaustible.
-Trees
-Wind
-Waves
100
The process of breaking down rocks and sediments into smaller pieces
What is weathering
100
This landform is a deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth.
What is Gulf
100
This landform has steep side that have been eroded by a river.
What is a canyon
100
how does a mountain form
the uplift of the plates or a volcano erupting
200
List 5 renewable resources that can generate energy.
-G_________ Energy
-H_________ Energy
-W_________ Energy
-B_________ Energy
-S_________ Energy
What is
-Geothermal Energy
-Hydropower Energy
-Wind Energy
-Biofuel Energy
-Solar Energy
200
The process of moving rocks and sediments to another location.
What is deposition.
200
Smaller than a lake but larger than a puddle.
What is Pond
200
How is a cave formed.
Water drips down into the soil and reacts to the carbon dioxide. It creates carbonic acid. When the carbonic acid and limestone touch the limestone reacts and starts to dissolve into the acid. Over time large caverns form. When the acid with limestone drip through the ceiling and the water dissolve the only thing left is the limestone creating stalactites and stalagmites
200
a sudden and violent shaking of the plates
What is an earthquake
300
Describe a nonrenewable resources and give examples.
A renewable resource is a resource that takes millions of years to create. We are consuming nonrenewable resources faster than the earth can produce them.
-Coal
-Oil/Petroleum
-Natural Gas
300
the process of picking something up by wind or water and moving them around
What is erosion
300
A length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water
What is channel
300
another word for beach
What is a coastline
300
a mountain or hill with a vent of which lava flows out
What is a volcano
400
Describe how a coal is formed.
Coal was formed from prehistoric plants and animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Ten feet of prehistoric plant debris was needed to make one foot of coal.
400
a fan shaped deposit on the mouth of a river
What is delta
400
Most likely the smallest object of water.
What is puddle
400
a sudden drop on the side of a mountain
What is a cliff
400
these are used to tell how old the tree is and where it lived
What are tree rings
500
True or False, natural gas, coal, oil/petroleum and wind are all nonrenewable.
What is False.
500
a type of weathering that starts with a "s"
What is sandblasting
500
A stretch of salt water separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef.
What is a lagoon
500
a headland or promontory of large size extending into a body of water